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HOW AGASSIZ TAUGHT PROFESSOR 

 WILDER 1 



THE phrase adopted as the title of this 

 article ['Louis Agassiz, Teacher'] begins 

 his. simple will. Agassiz was likewise an 

 investigator, a director of research, and the 

 founder of a great museum. He really was 

 four men in one. Without detracting from the 

 extent and value of the three other elements 

 of his intense and composite American life — 

 from his first course of lectures before the 

 Lowell Institute in 1846 to the inauguration of 

 the Anderson Summer School of Natural His- 

 tory at Penikese Island, July 8, 1873, and his 

 address before the Massachusetts State fioard 

 of Agriculture, twelve days before his untimely 

 death on December 14, 1873, — Agassiz was 



1 From an article by Professor Burt G. Wilder, of Cornell 

 University, in The Harvard Graduates' Magazine, June, 

 1907. The extract is taken from a reprint with slight 

 changes by the author, and is given with slight omissions 

 by the present writer. 



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